[sf-lug] sf-lug.{com,info} --> www.sf-lug.org (canonical)

[Michael Paoli]

Jim,

And at least that bit is mostly* done.

These domains:
[www.][ipv6.]sf-lug.info
now* do 301 ("permanent") redirect to
www.[ipv6.]sf-lug.org
(the ipv6. portion, if present, is preserved,
the [www.]ipv6.sf-lug.{org,com,info} being IPv6 only (no A records)).

*DNS changes are still percolating through expiration of TTLs -
should be 100% effective within a few days or less - I'll leave what  
does/doesn't
fully work yet, and from where, as an exercise for the curious.

If after 72 hours, any of what's described above in this email appears  
not to be
fully operational on The Internet at large, feel free to let me know  
(preferably on
list), and I'll have a look (but I'm not here to troubleshoot anyone  
and everyone's
much more localized problems).

I've also similarly set up
[www.][ipv6.]sf-lug.com --> www.[ipv6.]sf-lug.org

So canonical domain is sf-lug.org, with www.[ipv6.]sf-lug.org for web site.

We can simply *not* renew the sf-lug.info when it expires - not much value to
having it, but so long as it's there - well, might as well redirect it  
somewhere
useful.

sf-lug.org presumably will be renewed in perpetuity :-) ... but after  
moving registrars.

sf-lug.com ?  Judgement call.  Doesn't hurt much to keep it, but  
longer term, probably
not essential (unless one really wants to prevent someone else from  
grabbing the
sf-lug.com domain name) - but short to medium term, probably best to  
keep it around
a while, as sf-lug.com and sf-lug.org have both been used alot, without either
being particularly set as canonical (though sf-lug.org, as I'd  
mentioned earlier
has both longer history, and is also more what folks would expect for a
Linux User Group, as opposed to .com).

Oh, and sf-lug.org will probably always get one to www.sf-lug.com, but  
for web,
www.sf-lug.org is the proper canonical.

Also, don't have a proper SSL cert for the sf-lug.info domains yet,  
but probably will
also get around to that, to cover the bases.  sf-lug.org (and  
sf-lug.com) have proper
SSL certs - at least for the https domain names that are reasonably legitimate
https access names.

references/excerpts:

$ (domain=sf-lug; for www in 'www.' ''; do for ipv6 in '' 'ipv6.'; do  
for tld in org com; do h="$www$ipv6$domain.$tld"; echo "$h" $(curl  
--silent -I http://"$h"/ | sed -ne 's/^M$//;s/^HTTP\/[^ ]*  
\([0-9][0-9]*\) .*/\1/p;s/^Location: \(..*\)$/\1/p'); done; done; done)
www.sf-lug.org 200
www.sf-lug.com 301 http://www.sf-lug.org/
www.ipv6.sf-lug.org 200
www.ipv6.sf-lug.com 301 http://www.ipv6.sf-lug.org/
sf-lug.org 301 http://www.sf-lug.org/
sf-lug.com 301 http://www.sf-lug.org/
ipv6.sf-lug.org 301 http://www.ipv6.sf-lug.org/
ipv6.sf-lug.com 301 http://www.ipv6.sf-lug.org/
$ (domain=sf-lug; for www in 'www.' ''; do for ipv6 in '' 'ipv6.'; do  
for tld in info; do h="$www$ipv6$domain.$tld"; echo "$h" $(curl  
--insecure --silent -I http://"$h"/ | sed -ne 's/^M$//;s/^HTTP\/[^ ]*  
\([0-9][0-9]*\) .*/\1/p;s/^Location: \(..*\)$/\1/p'); done; done; done)
www.sf-lug.info 301 http://www.sf-lug.org/
www.ipv6.sf-lug.info 301 http://www.ipv6.sf-lug.org/
sf-lug.info 301 http://www.sf-lug.org/
ipv6.sf-lug.info 301 http://www.ipv6.sf-lug.org/
$

> From: jim <jim at well.com>
> Subject: Re: sf-lug.info
> Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2016 18:24:55 +0000

>     Thanks. I don't recall creating sf-lug.info, but
> a lot has happened, and I've shared the work with
> anyone who wanted to chip in and learn or teach.
>     I agree that sf-lug.org should be the cannonical
> referencve. Originally we agreed on sf-lug.{org,com,net}
> so's to protect the name from malicious or confusing
> uses by others-not-us. We stopped paying for the .net
> name.
>
>
> On 12/31/2015 06:54 AM, Michael Paoli wrote:
>> Jim,
>>
>> I notice you also have sf-lug.info owned by you and on the
>> Network Solutions / Web.com account.  Do you want to have that set up to
>> redirect to sf-lug.org (or .com)?  Looks like that was your intent:
>>
>> Web forwarding is:  On
>> Visitors to:
>> http://www.sf-lug.info
>> Should be forwarded to this destination URL:
>> http://www.SF-LUG.COM
>>
>> But it appears to just be an advertising parking page, apparently for
>> lack of completion of validation step(s).
>>
>> I think I'd still recommend www.sf-lug.org as the canonical,
>> as folks more generally expect .org for a LUG, rather than .com or .info
>> sf-lug.org has also been around longer than sf-lug.com.